The hearing will determine whether Neverdon has enough valid petition signatures to appear on the ballot, running against Democratic nominee Marilyn Mosby.

"This fight is not over. My grandmother once said that anything worth having is worth fighting for. Having a safe city is worth fighting for, so I'm going to keep fighting for Baltimore City," Neverdon said.

"We're challenging the fact that these things were improperly, negligently done so that Mr. Neverdon was denied the opportunity to appear on the ballot," said Edward Smith Jr., Neverdon's attorney.

Smith said errors were made by the Board of Elections staff in the count. According to the Board of Elections, Neverdon submitted just shy of 5,700 signatures and, of those, a little more than 2,500 were rejected for various reasons, from people not registered to name issues to signature problems. In the end, Neverdon had about 3,100 signatures and needed 4,160 to get on the ballot.

Neverdon's attorney said they plan to prove enough of those declined signatures are valid even if they have to go through each one.

"We intend to produce evidence to show that all of these signatures should have been accepted, and Mr. Neverdon's petition should have been certified and should be a candidate for state's attorney for this city," Smith said.

The hearing will take place at Courthouse East next Friday at 9:30 a.m.